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GRAND PRIX RESULTS: SOUTH AFRICAN GP, 1993

There had been major changes in the Formula 1 field since 1992 with Williams signing Alain Prost, who was returning to F1 after a year's absence. World Champion Nigel Mansell quit the team in order to go Indy Car racing in the United States and since second driver Riccardo Patrese had expected to lose his drive and had signed for Benetton, Frank Williams had to find a new driver. It was eventually decided that Damon Hill, the team's test driver, would be a good choice.

The Footwork team had decided not to build a totally new car and produced a B version of the FA13 fitted with Mugen engines. Aguri Suzuki was joined by World Sportscar Champion Derek Warwick, returning to F1 after two seasons with the Peugeot sportscar team.

The March F1 team was in dire trouble. After a management buy out, the team had tried to find money from a Swiss company but when this failed to materialize the team was in trouble. It nominated Jean-Marc Gounon and Jan Lammers as drivers but while the cars reached Kyalami, the engines did not.

When the race began Alain did not make a good start and so Senna jumped into the lead with Hill second until he spun at the first corner. Prost had to take avoiding action and Schumacher got ahead of him. It took 13 laps for him to retake the place and set off after Senna. Further back Hill began to recover but ended up crashing with Zanardi.

On lap 25 Prost went ahead of Senna and motored away. Senna remained second with Schumacher behind him until lap 40 when the German tried to pass the Brazilian and spun off. Patrese moved to third but he too spun off a few laps later leaving Blundell third. The order did not then change, despite a late race rain storm. The remaining points were collected by Fittipaldi, Lehto (scoring for Sauber on its debut) and Berger.